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March 11, 1930. L. HERMAN 1,750,404

DOLL

Filed March 50, 1927 Lo uzs HERMAN .7 BY 6 wd #641 ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 11, 1930 UNITED STATES LDUIS HERMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK onn Application fileKMarch 30, 1927. Serial No. 179,541.

The present invention relates to the type of dolls known as walking dolls, and has for an object to provide a hollow hard casing doll with flexible swinging legs, whereby the doll may be caused to simulate the movement of human beings in walking by a for? ward turning movement of first one side and then the other.

The bodies of hard casing dolls are fashioned or cast of plastic composition which is subsequently allowed to harden, after which the respective parts of the doll are colored or painted to simulate the various parts of the doll body. In dolls of this type the arms and legs are united to the trunk by ball and socket joints. permit the free swinging movement of the legs necessary in a walking doll. An object, therefore, of the present invention is to provide a composition doll or one in which the body is formed of a hard hollow casing with means whereby the legs have the required flexibility so that they will swing forward when the body is turned from side to side, simulating the movement of a person in walking.

Still another object in view is the provision of a doll formed with a body portion of cast or hardened composition and with the lower portion of the trunk and the upper portion of the limbs formed of flexible fabric covering which is stuffed with cotton or other fibrous material.

Another object in view resides in the novel means for joining the legs to the trunk of a hard casing doll.

Other objects reside in the novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter.

Fig. 1 is a View in elevation of the front of the doll;

Fig. 2 is a side view partly in elevation and partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lower portion of the trunk of the body;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the lower portion of another embodiment of the invention Such joints do not,

by cementing or gluing the same to the in- Fig. 5 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section of Fig. 4; F i -6 is a perspective View of the trunk of the body shown in Fig. 4, and

Fig. 7 is a side View in elevation of the lower body portion with a part thereof broken away.

In the drawings is shown a doll 1 having a hollow trunk or body 2 which may be described as a hard casing doll. In dolls of this type the trunk as well as the movable parts of the body are fashioned or molded from a plastic composition which after drying and hardening are painted and assembled, forming the complete doll structure. It is usual in dollsof this type to string the arms and legs to the trunkby means of elastic cords extending through ball and socket joints at the shoulders and hips respectively,

one end of these cords extending into the cavity in'the dolls head, where they are tied together and secured by a knot, uniting the movable parts of the doll to the trunk. This construction, however, produces a comparatively rigid doll structure having inflexible joints and rendering a freely swinging movement of the legs impossible.

In order to provide a doll of the hard casing type with freely swinging legs,"the doll shown in Fig. 1 has a lower trunk portion 3 joining the legs 4 to the trunk or body 2. The trunk portion 3 is formed of a flexible body casing 5 which may be stuffed or filled with any desired material, such as cotton, and is provided with a seamor joint 6 substantially at the hips, uniting the front and rear walls 7 and 8 of the casing 5. The seam 6, due to the flexibility of the casing 5, renders the legs 4 freely siwingable with relation tothe body of the doll. Y The upper portions '9 of the legs l preferably are formed as an integral part of the trunk portion 3, the stufling material in the said trunk portion 3 and the leg portions 9 being separated by means of the seam 6,. The body 2 of the doll has its bottom open in order to receive the trunk portion 3 in the hollow casing-gr. cavity 10, which is adapted to be secured therein terior wall thereof.

The lower portion of the trunk or body portion 2 may be formed as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, in which the back wall 11 is extended downwardly and forwardly of the back, tapering to a tip 12 which is adapted to extend between the legs at the crotch section, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, thereby maintaining the trunk portion 3 in said-casing. The trunk or body 2 may also be formed shown in Figs. a to (5 inclusive. In this embodiment the front wall 13 is terminated at Ll short of the bottom wall 15, while the side walls are terminated at 16 and 17, short of the bottom and front walls respectively, providing an opening 18 in the body 2 in which the body portion 3 may be inserted and secured, as shown in Fig. The body 2 may be provided with the usual openings in the upper portion for securing the arms 19 thereto by any desired means, and may also be provided with a depressed socket 20 in which the head 21 is adapted to be pivotally mounted by any desired means.

Constructed in this manner, a hard casing or composition doll may be moved to simulate a person walking, thus providing what is known as a walking doll. The construction also provides ready means for removing the lower limbs and the trunk portion 3 from the body of the doll, as in the construction shown more clearly in Figs. 3 and 6 respectively; it is unnecessary to cement or glue the trunk portion 3 in the cavity 10 as the same is retained in operative position therein by the structure of the lower part of the trunk, as hereinbefore described. The trunk portion 3, while described as being formed of a flexible casing is made of a fabric casing which readily permits flexing of the legs 4- at the seam 6, and while the upper portions of the legs 9 are formed as an integral part of the trunk portion 3, the lower portions of the legs l may be joined thereto at 22 by any desired means, or may likewise be formed as a flexible fabric casing and stuffed with any desired material.

Having described my invention I now claim:

1. In a doll structure a trunk or body formed of hardened composition, the said trunk or body being hollow and having an opening in its lower end, a lower body portion comprising leg members and an upper portion adapted to be inserted in the opening in the trunk or body and secured within the hollow therein, the said lower body portion being formed of fabric and stuffed, a seam joining the front and rear walls of the lower body portion between the leg members and the upper portion thereof to provide a flexible joint whereby the leg members have a freely swinging movement.

2. A doll comprising a casing fashioned to form the main body or trunk of the doll, the front and side walls at the bottom thereof being cut away to provide an aperture, a lower body portion insertable in the said aperture and formed to interlock with the walls of the casing, to fill the lower portion of the casing and to be secured in operative position therein solely by the walls thereof.

3. In a doll structure, a trunk, the lower portion of said trunk terminating in a curved wall defining an aperture in the lower portion of the trunk, leg members, a lower body member joined to the upper end of the leg members and formed to interlock with the said curved wall, said lower body member being insertable in the opening in the said aperture to engage the inner walls thereof to retain the lower body member in operative position in the trunk.

4. In a doll, a main body or trunk comprising a casing having a hard outer wall, a portion of the bottom wall being cut away providing an opening extending into the easing, leg members and a lower body portion secured to said leg member, the said lower body portion being formed to interlock with the walls of the casing and to be secured therein by said bottom wall.

LOUIS HERMAN.

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